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Nebraska & Iowa VEX IQ Challenge Season Starts
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The 2017-18 VEX IQ Challenge season has begun in Iowa and Nebraska, with teams competing with each other in the Ringmaster game. This will be the most exciting VEX IQ season with the expansion in teams and tournaments.
Rapid Growth in VEX IQ Challenge Teams
In 3 years, Nebraska and Iowa has seen rapid growth in VEX IQ Challenge teams. We’ve already doubled the number of teams from last year, with more teams planning to register this season. This growth has earned our region an additional World Championship Qualification spot for this season (now 3 spots). If the team growth continues, we could earn additional bonus spots this season.
Also, we’ve been fortunate to maintain an even split between Elementary and Middle school teams. Hopefully we continue to grow each division to allow both the opportunity for awards at each grade level at all tournaments.
| Season | MS Teams |
Elem Teams |
Total Teams |
Worlds Spots |
# of Events |
| 2015-16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-17 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017-18* | 12 | 14 | 26 | 3** | 7 |
* Registration is still in process for the season.
** Based on the overall team growth by December 31st, REC could grant additional World Spots to our region. Continue reading
2017 Nebraska & Iowa Online Challenge Entries
The mission for Robotics in Nebraska is to develop critical Science, Technology, Engineering and Math skills. These skills will prepare our students to succeed in a future job environment that will be very different from what we see today.
Robotics competitions have been a effective way to engage students and get them interested in developing these skills, but it isn’t the only method. We encourage many other activities that develop our students, including judged presentations and online challenges. This year, the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation ran eleven different Online Challenges that spotlighted different skill sets for students to work on.
Nebraska and Iowa Entries
We’d like to spotlight the great work we’ve seen from Nebraska and Iowa teams on the Online Challenges. We saw high quality submissions across both High School and Middle School. You can recognize their projects by voting for their entries and/or ‘Liking’ their entry pages. Check them all out:
Did we miss one?
There’s a good chance that we may have missed an entry from Nebraska or Iowa. We tried to find all of the entries we could, but you can help by sending us additional entries that we can add to this post. Send an email to [email protected]